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What's going on everyone? Hope you guys are having a fantastic Thursday.

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I wanted to make a quick, quick podcast that I should do for you guys today.

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And it is about my second biggest productivity hack. So I think the first one, the first biggest

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for me is waking up at four and getting, you know, four or five uninterrupted hours of work done

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without anyone bothering me. And that is probably my single biggest hack period because it allows me

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to move my big balls. Well, the big balls of the business forward. But the second biggest hack

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is what I want to share with you today. So one of the things that I think is most wasted as an

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entrepreneur is what I would call the minutes in between the rounded off minutes. And so let's say

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you have an appointment that's scheduled to start at 230 and it's like 208, right? It's 212.

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And a lot of times, at least this was something I used to do that I actively tried to break the

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habit when I did. It honestly is one of it's like, it's a game changer is that I used to have the

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belief that I can't get anything real done in 18 minutes, right? And what was interesting is that

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a lot of times we put off doing things until we have big chunks of time, right? But what I found

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is that there's this amount of, I don't know, aggravation or stress that open loops cause. And so

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like one of the secrets, and I got this from somebody who was talking about how to write a book,

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okay? And so one of his secrets to writing a book and getting them done quickly was that he would

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never leave off his writing when he had completed a thought. And so it's like, if you feel like

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you've completed a thought, you've completed the cycle, you're like, cool, I wrap that up. And what

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happens is it takes, then once, once you're there, it feels like it takes you a long time to like,

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go back in and start the next thought, right? And so you feel like you have the book a lot of time,

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all this kind of stuff, right? And so instead, he found that he would just have open loops and he would

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finish, he would finish writing his writing session when he was halfway done working through a thought,

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okay? And so it's like, it's not complete yet. And so what happened is he would just be like driven

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to get back to writing so he could complete this thought. But he wouldn't continue, he wouldn't stop

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until he had already started the next loop because he already had momentum, right? And so I read this

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and I was like, oh my gosh, because for me, it was, it's kind of just the same thought, not just

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with writing a book, but with like how you're doing work. And so I had this fear of like, well,

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I don't want to start something that I can't finish. But the reality is that if you start something

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that you can't finish, the likelihood that you're going to finish it faster is way, way,

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higher. And so if I start something, and let's say I started an email, or I start a script,

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like a sales script that I need to finish, or I start a messenger sequence that I need to write,

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or whatever, right? And I'm only like one third done and then I have to hop on a meeting for

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whatever, right? I immediately want to go back to it as soon as the meeting's over to continue,

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right? And so what happens is I get to suck up all of those 18-minute, eight-minute, 12-minute

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chunks throughout my day, rather than just pulling out my phone and going on Instagram or going

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on Facebook to check my notifications because like, ah, I got, you know, it's only 12 minutes.

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And I can't tell you how much of a game changer has been for me. Obviously, like you get all those

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minutes back and those minutes do add up, but I think more importantly, having the open loop

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and the mindset around the fact that if you start something and you don't finish it, it actually

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means it will get done faster rather than more slowly. Hey guys, real quick, if you're new to

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the podcast, I have a book on Amazon called $100 million offers that over 8,000 five-star reviews

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and it has almost a perfect score. You can get it for 99 cents on Kindle. The reason I bring it up

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is that I put over a thousand hours into writing that book and it's my biggest gift for our

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community. So it's my very shameless way of trying to get you to like me more and ultimately make

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more dollars to that later on in your business career. I can finish the part with you. So that's my

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gift. Go check it out. Amazon and back to the show. And so that's probably my like second biggest

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like hack or at least belief that I had to break for myself from like what I do every day.

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standpoint, that has like super, super helped me. And so I hope that's, you know, I hope that's

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you for you guys because I know you guys are busy all the time and you guys get tons of interruptions

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probably like I do. And just the shift of thinking I can start something and not finish it and

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it's a good thing because then it's going to mean that I'm going to come back to it immediately

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and want to finish it faster. So anyways, hope you guys have an amazing Thursday. I am cranking

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today. Y'all can join me in the productivity hustle of getting tons and tons and tons and tons of

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stuff done. We're gone for I think three weeks in May. Just doing like back to back zillion things

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and we have all these releases that are coming out like things that have been in the works for like

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six to nine months and they're all happening in a period of six weeks. It's going to be insane.

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But the crunch time is now because I have to finish this stuff before we go. So anyways guys,

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hope you have an awesome day and you're super productive and that you suck up all those extra

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minutes that you might normally have not used and just give it to Facebook to give ads to you.

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Alright, have an amazing day. Talk to you soon.